The city has not yet committed to putting a millage on the ballot to support funding for the project,

I have worked for more than three decades trying to provide better relations between the races, trying to protect equal rights. That's my core being, and they've attacked that.

I knew in advance what they were going to say about John Roberts. They were going to say that he was a threat to these rights. That he was out of the mainstream, and they said that before they had ever researched his record. Doesn't matter.

I'm sure that the mayor thought he gave you the list and that was sufficient,

Dailey is definitely not a leader; he's a bully. It's his way or the highway. If you disagree with him, he attempts to intimidate rather than discuss it.

I told him what he did was a heinous, reprehensible, despicable, dastardly act and that he was going to the penitentiary for it,

This is where we're talking about federal government and rapid response. And those two normally don't go together.

This is a devastated area trying to get people back to work, working with companies from all over the country. But not their own companies, ... As you can imagine, that creates a lot of frustration.

People used to ask me if it didn't bother me that they were saying things against me that were not true. Well, it would have bothered me a lot more if it had been true. I couldn't live with myself if what they said was true.

They accuse the Bush nominees of being out of the mainstream of American thought, but polls indicate clearly that the positions they (liberal special interest groups) hold are the ones that are way, way out of the mainstream of American thought.